[katello-devel] Future feature RFC: Package Upload

[Todd Sanders]

On 03/21/2012 08:59 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 03/20/2012 01:30 PM, Todd Sanders wrote:
>> 1. Let's not reinvent the wheel here, the heavy lifting has already been
>> done in Pulp.  We should expose the same set of functionality that Pulp
>> provides with regards to package uploads via it's cli.  See:
>> http://pulpproject.org/ug/UGContent.html#upload
>
> Hmm, but Pulp upload packages using POST. Have you you benchmarked how 
> long it will take you to upload 2GB Oracle server rpm? And how much 
> data over those 2GB you have to transfer?
>

Agreed.  You raise a very good point with regards to base64 encoding.  
I'll have the Pulp guys look into this further.

-Todd